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The Republican National Convention inJacksonville and Florida, will feature daily coronavirus testing for all those attending the event, that is devoted to President Donald Trump accepting the Republican nomination in a 15,000-person arena.

Erin Isaac, the spokeswoman for the host committee from the Jacksonville part of the convention, said in the emailed memo on Monday that "everyone attending the convention within the perimeter will likely be tested and temperature checked each day."

When reached by CNN on Monday night, Isaac repeated that attendees will be tested for Covid-19 rather than just receive a more simple health screening.

A party official said the GOP will likely be laying out more information on the way the testing and other health protocols will act as the convention gets closer.

If Republicans stick to the itinerary they previously planned, Trump will give his acceptance speech there at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on August 27, the last day of the convention, although the schedule is unclear for the Jacksonville portion of the convention.

Good news turns on the heels of Drug and Food Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn saying on Sunday it's "too early to tell" whether Florida might be a safe home for your convention the following month due to a improvement in Covid-19 cases within the state.

"I think it's too soon to see," Hahn, affiliated with the White House coronoavirus task force, told CNN's Dana Bash on "State with the Union." "We'll ought to see how this unfolds in Florida and round the country."

Florida, now the nation's No. According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, 1 hot spot for the virus, set a record on Saturday for the most new coronavirus cases in a single day for any state during the pandemic, with a total of 11,458.

The state of hawaii faces potential challenges in handling the outbreak that may come to a head during the convention. A CNN investigation on Monday discovered that health authorities inside the state often neglect to do contact tracing, long considered an important tool in containing an episode.

The other day, the city of Jacksonville declared that it could be requiring visitors to wear markers in public places and indoor locations and where social distancing is not possible -- something the President has consistently refused to accomplish in public.

Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Ahrens said inside a statement that, together with the event a little less than 2 months away, the party "is focused on holding a safe convention that fully complies with local health regulations set up at that time."

"We are intending to offer health precautions including although not limited to temperature checks, available PPE, aggressive sanitizing protocols, and available COVID-19 testing," Ahrens said. "We have a great working relationship with local leadership in Jacksonville as well as the condition of Florida, and we'll carry on and coordinate using them from the months ahead."

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has previously pledged that everyone attending the convention would be tested.

"We're going to test everybody," she said in a interview on Fox News a week ago. "We're gonna have temperature checks, we will sanitize."

Isaac declined to answer questions on Monday as to what types or brands of tests would be administered. Alternatively, whether attendees would be separated while waiting for test results.

Lab-based PCR tests may take a few hours to run -- and days to return results due to a surge in demand, even though some rapid tests can deliver results in less than 15 minutes. On Monday, by way of example, the main commercial laboratory Quest Diagnostics said results now take typically 3 to 4 days to the general population.

The convention will probably be split between Charlotte and Jacksonville, Nc, in a departure from past conventions, fueled to some extent by host city coronavirus concerns.

The announcement that this President would accept the nomination in Jacksonville came following a weeks-long battle between Democratic New york Gov. Roy Cooper, whose team had been working to keep the convention in Charlotte despite coronavirus fears, and Trump, who refused to permit the caution of health officials stop Republicans from creating a fully attended convention.

Because the party signed a contract to hold the convention in Charlotte, it is obligated to hold some portion of the gathering in the North Carolina city. So, in a Republican convention unlike any other in modern history, delegates will officially elect their nominee in one location, while the nominee accepts the nomination hundreds of miles away.

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Tuesday, 7 July 2020

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